Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!dgbt!rick.doc.ca!calvin.doc.ca!andrew
From: andrew@calvin.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick)
Subject: Problems getting error messages to remote posters
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.224135.22001@rick.doc.ca>
Summary: inews does not return error messages
Sender: news@rick.doc.ca
Nntp-Posting-Host: calvin.doc.ca
Organization: Communications Research Centre, Ottawa
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 1991 22:41:35 GMT


Configuration:
	nntp 1.5.11
	Cnews 1-Dec-1990
	rn/rrn Patchlevel 54
	Sun 4/65 (SPARCstation 1+)
	SunOS 4.0.3c
	
Problem:
I am continuing to have problems getting error messages back to users
who are posting on client machines (e.g., those running rrn).  Here is
an example of how to reproduce the problem:

	calvin.doc.ca /home/andrew> Pnews
	Newsgroup(s): nogroup
	Title/Subject: a test to nogroup
	This program posts news to everyone on the machine.
	Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this? [ny] y
	Prepared file to include [none]:
	[editor runs]
	Send, abort, edit, or list? s

I never receive any error messages complaining that "nogroup" is not in
the active file, whereas I do if I run this on the nntp server
machine.

It looks like the "mini-inews" that comes with nntp is supposed to
watch for error messages from the posting host, but it is not working for
me.

Has anyone else seen this problem?  Can someone else who is running
nntp as a client try the Pnews test listed above?


-- 
Andrew Patrick, Ph.D.       Department of Communications, Ottawa, CANADA
andrew@calvin.doc.CA
                    "The interface IS the program."